Ch. 640

LAWS OF MARYLAND

certain circumstances; and generally relating to the action
for possession of a mobile home by a park owner.

BY repealing

Article - Real Property

Section 8A-1702(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1988 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Real Property

Section 8A-1702(c), (d), and (e)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1988 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Real Property

8A-1702.

[(c) In all cases between park owner and resident, where
one-half year's rent shall be in arrears and the park owner has
the lawful right to reenter for the nonpayment thereof, the park
owner may, without any formal demand or reentry, serve a copy of
a declaration in ejectment for the recovery of the mobile home;
if the declaration cannot be legally served, or no resident be in
actual possession of the property, then he shall affix it upon
the door of the mobile home; such affixing shall be deemed legal
service thereof, which service or affixing of such declaration in
ejectment shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and
reentry. If the court shall enter a verdict for the park owner,
he shall have judgment and execution in the same mariner as if the
rent in arrears had been legally demanded and a reentry made. If
the resident or other person claiming or deriving under the
lease, shall permit a judgment to be rendered against him, and
execution to be executed thereon, without paying the rent and
arrears, together with full costs, and without proceeding for
relief in equity within 6 calendar months after the execution,
the resident and all other persons claiming and deriving under
the said lease shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or
remedy in law or equity other than by appeal for reversal of such
judgment, and the park owner shall thenceforth hold the property
discharged from the rental agreement. Nothing herein contained
shall bar the right of any mortgagee of the lease, or any part
thereof, who shall not be in possession, so as such mortgagee
shall and do, within 6 calendar months after such judgment
obtained and execution executed, pay all costs and damages

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